State v. Height
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court. — Hon. Wm. G. Thompson, Judge. Prosecution for the crime of rape. Verdict of guilty. From judgment thereon, defendant appeals. —
1Opinion of the Court
McClain, J. —
1 The crime is charged to have been committed by having sexual intercourse with a female under the age of consent. The evidence tends to show that the prosecutrix, a child ten years of age, did not make complaint of the alleged outrage until about eleven days after its commission, and then, on examination by physicians, was found to be affected with venereal disease.. The prosecuting attorney claimed in his opening statement that he would be able to show that the defendant at the time of the alleged intercourse was afflicted with the same disease, which he might have communicated…
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